New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-17

were TO succeed Ia proving MS Chains. In TACT, IL
would be- even preferable to dsbelieve tbs most
positive and convincing evidence on the subject Is
tar better that one man should suffer than large
number Of persons" IL is indeed curious that the
Fren,h Government should never have consented to
allow the matter be siied by the tribunals Ii the
Nauendorfis are mpostors, why not allow Them to be
nubciy proved as such
NowIere In Europe is greater strictness observed in
the matters OF registration of births deaths and OF
what is known the Continent ~ the Etat Civil
of the population, than IN Holland Inc Dutch
authorities the lost prosaic, matter ot fact and
sound he AIDED officials ina gnable and utsery OPP
posed to romancing OF any kind. They must there
Iese hahs n as they DID, M de- Sauendor IS
Bourbon. The Dutch Official register, OF deaths
records that of the present Mr. de Nauendors father
In lS45, In the following terms
.Died on 10Th August at No. 81 Oude-st. Delft,
Charles Louis dc Bourbon, Due OF Normandie Louis
xyILl known by the name OF charles William "a
France on the 9th March. 1885, aged therefore sixty
years son OF His late Majesty LOUIS XVI King OF
France, and of Her Imperial and Royal Highness
Marie Antoinette Archduchess of Austria Queen OF
France both OF them deceased at Paris aud husband
of Madame In Duchess dc Normandis' nee Jeanne
Registrar tor the District OF Delft
An Official copy OF the above death certificate dated
December 10, 1885, and bearing the o bclai sigma
lures Of the present Royal Registrar OF the District Of
Delft and OF the Dutch Consul General at Paris. ID
contained in Count Herissous book Several OF the
brotheis tho present Mr. de Nauendor are serving
in the Dutch Army officers OF high rank under the
| name OF de Bourbon. 1t is therefore probable thai
| the popular assertion that the DuScn government
have in their possession documents firmly establishing
the contested identity of Louis XVIII Is well founded
| Otherwise the above recognition OF the Nanendorfl
claims would have been contrary to the laws OF the
country and the regulations of the army. Perhaps
the French Government tears that II the Paris
tribunals vera To consent to q hearing OF the Naueu
dor8 ease and were to give adverse Judgment ths
Dutsb Go, eminent would in seltdeience come tor
ward with positive evidence the subject. 1t may
be ndded that of the best methods OF dspOsinx
the claims Of mpostor Is prove his identify AM
parentage. Now. although the Orleans princes scot
| at the present Mr.. de Nauendorns pretensons, ant
| deny that his father the son OF King Louis XVI
vet nethar they body else have sceedes
ia providing Mr. dc Nanendorf with any 0the
| parentage.
Il is well known that the Vatican has in its posses
sion documents giving account OF the escape OF tn
| Dauphn fron tho Temple prison. Pope Plus VII. va
fully aware that he alive la 1916. For when tn
| French Government determined to erect the well
known Chapclls Exp iatoire at Paris memory Of th
deaths of King Louis XVI. of Queen Mari
Antoiuet.e of Madame Elizabeth aud of tho Dauphin
the Holy Father addressed vigorous prusest to tn
King tho subject which rssalted in the erasure 9
the OF the decapitated monai chs son. Plus vi
asserted that he could not allow the prayers TOR Tn
dead be- made behalf of living person, ana tbs
he would not for ons moment tolsrats such sser